Sunday, 19 May 2013

Constructivism

Constructivism

Constructivism was a Russian, art and architectural movement in the 20th century which rejected the idea of traditional art concern with composition, values and monarchy, mainly with construction and Graphic Design. Objects were created not to express beauty but to study materials and forms of art, which could have leaded to the design of functional objects. Graphic Design in this movement varied from the production of product packaging, logos, posters, book covers, and advertisements which they used to have on them a mixture of different sans serif typefaces, simple, flat, symbolic colours, and extensive white space as part of the design, photography rather than illustrations and also photomontages. Rodchenko's graphic design works became an inspiration to many people in the western world including Jan Tschichold and also graphic design today. The Constructivists borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism. Some artists of this movement were Alexander Rodchenko, Kasmir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin.  



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